Here are The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro boys outdoor track and field teams for the 2025 season:

Athlete of the Year

Justin DeVaughn,

Mervo, senior

The University of Maryland football commit set a very ambitious schedule for the Class 4A state championships.

It had him going back and forth from the long jump pit, to hurdles preliminaries, back to the jump area, then back to the track to be a part of Mervo’s relays.

It landed him three gold medals, one silver and — most importantly to DeVaughn — the 4A state team championship for his school.

“It means a lot, I’m not going to lie. It’s been a long journey for real for our team, a lot of ups and downs. I’m glad we went out with a bang for my last year,” he said after the state championships. “I haven’t held one of those trophies in a long time. We always came up short. My freshman year we came up second in indoor, second place again my 10th grade year. This year we all came together and got the job done.”

DeVaughn won the long jump with a leap of 23 feet, 1 3/4 inches. He won the 110-meter hurdles in 13.78 seconds, the second-fastest time in Maryland this spring according to athletic.net. He also anchored Mervo’s championship 4×200 relay and was on the Mustangs’ runner-up 4×100 team.

“You can see the hard work. That’s the hard work, that’s all it is,” he said. “That’s the hard work we’ve been putting in and it showed.”Had personal stamina allowed, he could’ve been in line for even more hardware. He won the Baltimore City high jump title clearing 6-6, a height that ranked him in eighth in the state.

After the championship, holding all his hardware, he took time to reflect on the legacy he leaves behind, not just in track and field, but in football.

“I’ve done a lot of stuff at this school,” he said. “I like representing this school; I like doing what I do. Just glad I’m at this school. I could’ve been at any other school, but I don’t think it was going to give me the same experience this one did. My dad, too, he’s been here all four years, too. Next up is my little brother.”

Xavier DeVaughn was a freshman member of Mervo’s team and Justin is looking forward to the DeVaughn legacy living on.

“I want him to continue it, but I want him to do it in his own way,” Justin said. “I want him to be himself. My freshman year, it was about my older brother. He won the the 110 and 300 hurdles. Everybody was comparing us. But I just wanted to be myself, go ahead, break any record he had. And I want my little brother to do the same thing. Just keep it going.”

Coach of the Year

Stacy Severtson,

Crofton

Crofton High School opened in the fall 2020. During the pandemic-plagued 2021 spring season, Severtson was tasked with launching the Cardinals’ track and field program.

“It was difficult starting up, starting over COVID, too,” she said. “We only started with ninth and 10th graders, only a few probably came over from another school. So there were a lot of raw athletes. We started out fresh with basics. We didn’t have upperclassmen to go through drills, but then we didn’t have any bad habits to erase.”

Now five seasons in, from the ground floor, Severtson built Crofton into a statewide power. She said her athletes “bought into the vision we had.”

Her boys team this year won Urbana’s Kayley Milor Twilight Meet, Reservoir’s Gator Invitational and Old Mill’s Golliday Invitational. The Cardinals won the Anne Arundel County championship by 57 points and the 4A East Region title by 84 points. They were the 4A state runner-up behind Mervo. This comes after years of the boys trying to match the success the girls program was having locally.

“The boys team was kind of getting frustrated and they really worked hard to get up to where the girls where,” Severtson said. “It was them waning them to have to same success.”

Perhaps most impressive about this year’s run is that Crofton’s boys didn’t feature a standout athlete who could get 30 or 40 points by themselves at a meet. No Cardinal placed higher than third at states. But what they did have was a balanced and deep roster with a lot of athletes capable of posting strong finishes in a variety of events.

“That’s how we built our team from the beginning. We ask our kids to try everything,” Severtson said. “We ask our kids to be adaptable to what we need as a team. We try to work the whole range of the sport of track and field with our kids. … This year we took probably the most kids we ever did to states and it showed.”

All-Metro first team

Will Coyne,

Loyola Blakefield, senior

Coyne was the top pole vaulter in the area with a top mark of 14 feet, 7 inches at the Maverick Madness meet. He cleared 14 feet to win the MIAA A Conference championship.

Kofi Duro,

Arundel, senior

Duro’s best long jump of his career, 22-7 1/2, won him the 3A state championship. He was also state runner-up in the triple jump after winning Anne Arundel County and East Region titles in the event.

Jemmel Green,

Gilman, senior

Green was a three-time winner at the MIAA championships, claiming the 800 (1:55.95), 1,600 (4:17.90) and 3,200 (9:22.28) titles.

Ruichen He,

Glenelg, senior

He’s Howard County championship discus throw of 172-3 was the best in Maryland this spring, according to athletic.net. He threw 165-9 to win the 3A state championship, more than 14 feet further than the second-place finisher.

Onyeka Ikpe,

Calvert Hall, senior

Ikpe swept the MIAA A Conference throwing championships, winning the shot put (55-9) and discus (159-3). His shot put mark was the fourth best in Maryland this spring.

Tsedeke Jakovics,

Old Mill, senior

The future Princeton Tiger closed his decorated high school career with three more individual state titles, winning 3A crowns in the 800 (1:53.58), 1,600 (4:16.59) and 3,200 (9:32.55). He also anchored Old Mill’s state championship 4×800 relay team.

Ameer Mowad,

Eastern Tech, senior

Mowad was the area’s top sprinter this spring. He won the 2A state championship in the 100 in 10.47 seconds, the fourth fastest time in Maryland. He placed third at states in the 200, but his Baltimore County-winning time of 20.96 seconds was the fastest in the state.

Gabriel Murray,

Oakland Mills, senior

Murray was a three-time state champion, winning 3A titles in the 100 (10.66), 110 hurdles (13.85) and 300 hurdles (37.10). He posted the best times in Maryland this season in the 110 hurdles (13.71) and 300 hurdles (36.40).

Martin Ojulu,

Dundalk, senior

Ojulu was the 4A state champion in the 200 (21.01) and the runner-up in the 100 after claiming the North Region championship in both events. He also ran on the Owls’ 4×100 team that finished third at states.

Jared Okechukwu,

Mount Saint Joseph, senior

Okechukwu left the MIAA championships with four individual gold medals. He won the 110 hurdles (15.21), long jump (22-7 3/4) and triple jump (44-6), and shared the high jump title (6 feet).

Eric Penkala,

Southern-AA, senior

Penkala closed his stellar distance career with 2A state championships in the 1,600 (4:11.95) and 3,200 (9:20.57). His 1,600 time was the fastest in Maryland, while his top 3,200 time (9:07.47 at the Under Armour Black and Blue Invitational) was the second fastest.

Khory Reevey,

Harford Tech, senior

Reevey swept the 2A hurdles state titles, winning the 110 and 300. He added another state championship in the long jump (22-3 1/4).

Gregory Schellberg,

Liberty, senior

Schellberg keyed Liberty’s 1A team state championship with gold medals in the 1,600 (4:21.56) and 3,200 (9:40.47). He also anchored the Lions’ runner-up 4×800 relay team.

Jeryco Sheppard,

Dundalk, senior

Sheppard cleared 14 feet to win the 4A pole vault state championship. He was also North Region high jump champion, clearing 6-4.

All-Metro second team

Christian Doss, Crofton, junior

Damon Ferguson Jr., Milford Mill, junior

Ryan Hartranft,

Century, senior

LaMont Johnson,

Digital Harbor, senior

Chege Kaba,

Arundel, senior

Philip Kaiser, Hammond, senior

Gabe Levrone,

Calvert Hall, senior

Rommel Marquez Jr.,

Parkville, junior

Ojigwe Olua,

Western Tech, senior

Keshon Tate,

Oakland Mills, senior

Deandre Thomas,

Mervo, junior

Ryan Vollmer,

Liberty, junior

Alexander Wockenfuss, Harford Tech, senior

Alexander Yeon, Winters Mill, senior

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